Sentences with phrase «big companies take»

«If big companies take notice, while they can't make the exact same product as us, I'm sure they can figure something out,» Lee said.

This is a major endorsement, but then again big companies take bets too..!

Because what happens is big business, big companies take advantage of ignorance and — and that's — they take advantage of ignorance through marketing.

Because the open nature of the system was the most hotly - discussed topic, it brought even more attention to the restrictive hoops independent developers had to jump through in order to release their games on consoles, and the bigger companies took notice.

Furthermore, it is hoped that it will allow remittance and investments to flow into underdeveloped areas without big companies taking a large cut.

Not exact matches

That's why using big data is so important for small businesses: Culling and organizing data from the company is a direct way to take the guesswork out of delegating, making it easier to measure success and adjust course as needed.

A big business that has a reputation to protect won't take a risk on your small company if it doesn't think you can perform, Boykin says.

«I think it will take three to five years to see how much better the [bigger] beverage companies will get working with stevia,» Sicher said.

Think about the big moves your company can make to go «10X» or take «massive action» instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results.

A Perth company that has become a global leader in the education software market is facing uncertain times as main rival Blackboard takes over two of its biggest partners.

Leader - Chivée is one of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas for 2018, where I asked a number of my favorite award - winning marketing experts, authors, and other thought leaders — as well as some of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage of to get ahead in 2018.

It's a good place to start because the big companies won't be as quick to respond if you're not taking their best customers.

«I'm highly skeptical of somebody who has been too long at a big company because they simply don't understand that [at a startup] there is no job definition — you do whatever it takes,» Zafar says.

To compete against bigger companies, smaller firms need to take the time to create an internship that will benefit the student's career.

The bigger your company grows the more fancy titles there are that have nothing to do with taking care of your customers.

As we celebrate the top 100 crowdfunded companies, we take a look at some of this year's biggest crowdfunding flops.

Giphy is taking on the biggest, weirdest branding challenge online today: How to become the go - to company for a new kind of internet culture.

But what caused the big oilsands and power companies to support the plan is that it primarily takes the form of a broad - based carbon tax.

After finally securing funding and taking off, co-founder Vlad Tenev told Business Insider that the company's biggest mistake was focusing on anything but the product.

Taking one for the team; bidding up and against your own best offer; sucking it up, and accepting a deal that you're not sure the company can afford — these are bad choices and consistent signals that there're bigger issues and problems coming.

In other words, it encourages the smallest companies to expand and hire employees — thus making a bigger contribution to the economy — in order to take advantage of the tax break.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

His project grew through word of mouth until it grew so big, he moved the company to San Francisco and started taking on venture capital investments, eventually raising $ 259 million at a valuation of $ 1.5 billion.

I'm not cavalier about other people's money or jobs, but here that doesn't qualify as risk, which is weird because in many, many countries, quitting your job and starting a company and taking money from someone and losing it is a big, big no - no.

Schindler took the reins of Canada's biggest tech company in October.

For example, young companies that target big business customers are increasingly checking out rival Microsoft (msft) Azure, while those wanting extensive analytics take a good hard look at Google Cloud Platform.

Key is really starting from within, figuring out some business pain points — big or small, across front and back office — and then taking a curated approach to meeting relevant companies.

Consequently, big U.S. companies that had already invested in China infrastructure — Nike NKE, P&G, Gap GPS, and, yes, Amazon are prominent examples — have taken advantage of Tmall.

Both have formed partnerships with larger companies in order to take on big projects without spreading themselves too thin.

Video processing, machine learning algorithms, and networking are all places where big companies use FPGAs to their advantage, but what happens if smaller hobbyists start taking that kind of customizable processing power into their garages?

Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

Reddit is taking the opportunity to get in digs, likely hoping to capitalize on some of that general distaste for the biggest social - media companies, and the echo chambers of information in which they tend to trap their customers.

Big companies aren't the only ones who can create sales events, nor are they the only ones who can take part in them.

Instead, he did it the same way a fast - growth software or biotech company develops products — with a small team, angel funding, freewheeling management, a willingness to take big risks, and a belief that serious profit lay on the far side.

Chen Tianqiao, who built game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment into what was once China's biggest internet company (big enough to rival Alibaba and Tencent), disappeared after leaving China and taking his company private in 2012.

It was only after Tim Cook took over the company as CEO in 2011 — and after investors such as Carl Icahn called for much a «bigger and immediate» buyback program in 2013 — that Apple's dividend and buyback programs ballooned to the current sizes.

Although Sandwich still makes plenty of videos for penniless passion projects and moderately - funded ventures, the company has recently taken on work for big corporations like eBay and Yahoo, and has even put together the odd TV ad.

Sundance Resources boss Giulio Casello has taken a big pay cut as the company seeks to cut costs, with the Perth - based explorer also locking in a $ 1.3 million investment to assist in the search for a partner for its Mbalam Nabeba iron ore project in Africa.

As a response, Endeavor finally took action in September by opening an office in Miami and assembling a board of local business leaders that includes execs from Virgin Hotels and Cisneros Group, one of the biggest privately held media companies in the world.

Will they take the entry of such a powerhouse company into one of their biggest cash cows lying down?

«It took me seven years working at a big company to build a clientele,» says Michael Nunziato, a now independent hair stylist in St. Charles, Illinois.

A lot of them find that at least right now, we can take really big bets as a private company.

If the company loses it's biggest customer, for instance, you might be tempted to prop up the troops by saying something like, «It's not a big deal, we'll find another customer to take their place.»

The MCNs behind some of YouTube's biggest stars have grown to become quite valuable to major media and entertainment companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German - based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in StyleHaul.

«At the time, it was a huge portion of her net worth, so she was really taking a big leap on me,» says Hague, who was eight months out of York University's Schulich School of Business when she started the company.

Here are the top 10 fastest - growing companies taking a bite out of the Big Apple.

She speculates that the company strengthened its bonds with customers by taking a stand against Big Pharma.

The irony of Facebook's CEO taking out a print ad to apologize for the company's biggest scandal ever also can't be overlooked.

LeadCrunch takes all of the hassle of Big Data and formats it into sales fuel for your company's rocketship.

Of course, strong leadership also often goes hand in hand with bold ambition: Polman took a big risk by declaring his — to double the company's size even while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social impact.